Sensations are not your enemy. They are your teacher. Through observing them, you understand the truth of existence.

The mind is like a room with many windows. Open them all and let the fresh air in.

The nature of mind is the unity of awareness and emptiness.

Wherever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything.

Every moment of confusion is also a moment of wisdom, if we can learn to recognize it.

The only way to fail at meditation is to stop doing it.

Change is the nature of every phenomenon. Accept this truth and you will live a happy life.

Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.

This very body is the Buddha. And this very earth the lotus paradise.

Every step on the path must be with the understanding of anicca - impermanence. This is the essence of the teaching.

Recognize the emptiness of all phenomena, but do not become attached to emptiness itself.

The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.

Start from where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.

The path to liberation is through understanding the true nature of mind and matter through direct observation.

Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty. We can't simply relax with ourselves. We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.

Nothing is permanent. Everything is subject to change. Being is always becoming.

The Buddha taught us to leave alone the things that don't lead to awakening.

The path to liberation is a gradual path of self-discipline, self-development, and self-transformation.

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks.

Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.

The purpose of life is to be happy, to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is not to be well known, cited, or powerful.

When you generate negativity, you are the first victim of your negativity.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Love is the wish that others be happy, and compassion is the wish that they be free from suffering.

The more we understand impermanence, the more we understand that we can't hold on to anything.

The greatest obstacle to meditation is our expectation about what it should be.

Don't try to change the world. First, change yourself.

Don't be afraid of the future. The future is good.

The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.

Try to be mindful and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.